Patience, waiting , and open hands . These are the themes that have resounded in my life the last two years.You'd think I'd have the lesson all learned by now! Sadly, I am a slow learner and make the same mistakes, over, and over, and over again. Some of these themes I have talked about on here (or, maybe most of them...) Patience: waiting patiently for God to use you, and waiting patiently for colleges to get back to you. Waiting: waiting to see where God wants you, and waiting for your adviser to reply to your email you sent 2 weeks ago. Open hands: Hanging onto my own plans with open hands, because it is so much more painful for God to have to pry my hands open to remove a plan that is keeping me from His plans for my life. Giving things to God is so much easier in the long run, and it lets me see Him work in and through my life in ways I could never have foretold. One of those things is my plans for this fall. For those of you who don't know, this fall ...
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:17-19